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Sonic and Knuckles Sandopolis While Michael Jackson's music is all over most of Sonic 3's music, he had nothing to do with the second part of Sonic 3 (AKA S&K). That's probably the reason the music for S&K sounds different and doesn't have that R&B/New Jack Swing sound. S&K and S3 were meant to be one game but had to be split into two games. One of the few songs I liked on S&K was this one Sandopolis. Here's the best part; Sandopolis Act 2 is a completely different version of the theme. It is much slower and creepier, probably because there are actually ghosts in the later acts of this stage. Act 2 sounds so different that I wouldn't call it a remix like the other stages. Again, I liked the music in S3 better, but I really like these songs.   

Nice Arrangement of Home Guldove From Chrono Cross I've loved Chrono Cross' music since its release years ago. I love this arrangement by Moonbow Music. Here's the coolest part. The original composer ( Yasunori Mitsuda ) of this piece posted the You Tube video on his own Facebook page . The Home World version of this song is very joyful and fast while the Another World version is slow, somber and distant. As I stated before the Home World versions of the CC songs are fast and joyful while the Another World versions are distance. And, here's the Another World version.

No more Jack Ryan for Chris Pine Movie-fone did an interview with Chris Pine (Captain Kirk) where he revealed he's not coming back for another Jack Ryan movie. From Moviefone, (( No. I don't think it made enough money for that to happen. That's one of my deep regrets, that we didn't totally get that right. It's a great franchise and if it's not me then I hope it gets a fifth life at this point. It's just great. I love the spy genre. I hope it's done again and with a great story. ))   Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit was somewhat a disappointment for the studio and Paramount strangely released the movie in January of this year. January is a dumping ground for studios to get rid of movies they don't have faith in. The movie was supposed to be released in Dec 2013, but got pushed back. This is clearly an indication that the studio wasn't pleased with the finished product. I found it strange that they decided to do a reboot consid...

The Interview (Part 1 of 2) Kim is a bro?  After all the controversy and bullshit, the comedy The Interview has finally been released.   Was it worth the talk and crap?   Was it funny? On both questions, I have to say yes.   Surprisingly, it actually reminded me of This is The End with its sometimes-violent scenes.   It is a mixture of slapstick and black humor.   While I don’t laugh that much with comedies I enjoy (I usually just smile), I found myself laughing a few times and that’s a good thing.   (I watched the movie on Google Play after figuring out you can only use Chrome to use GP.) Like everyone knows, Dave Skylark (Franco) is a shitty interview guy that does merely fluff pieces and Seth Rogen is his producer.   Rogen discovers that Kim Jong-un is a huge fan of Skylark.   Through hidden channels, North Korea irons out a one-on-one interview with Jong-un and Skylark.   The CIA recruits the two to poison Kim.   ...

AirAsia missing... From CBS, ((An astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia turned worse Sunday when an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy Indonesian waters, with no word on its fate despite several hours of searching by air and sea. )) Are we in some strange Alt-world where planes just end up disappearing? By the way, we STILL haven't found the remains of that Malaysian Airlines flight. Plus, that other Malaysian plane was shot down. Man, this is really making me uneasy about flying. It is frustrating to not know what happened to these planes. I feel for these families. This is so messed up.  Why am I getting vibes of Lost with these missing flights?  On that show, two planes go missing because of warps in space transport the planes near the island.  

Please stop buying overpriced Nike shoes  Did you know someone was killed recently over a pair of Jordans ?   Please, black community, can we please stop falling for this overpriced scam that is in the form of Air Jordans. I never understood the sway of wearing these overpriced and over-designed shoes had on black teens. I remember people looked at you like a king if you got the new Air Jordans. 200 dollar! The most I will pay for in shoes is around 40 bucks and I keep my shoes forever. I think my current shoes are around 10 years old both pairs. That's always made me an outcast in the black community because I refused to buy any Nike over 40 bucks and never wore too many name-brand shirts of jackets, which in turn guaranteed me NOT getting any pussy. I'm not dissing shoes all the way, because I'd love to get my hands on some of those future Nike shoes from Back to the Future II. I just feel the way we go stark raving mad for shoes is troubli...

Random Things  ~ Roberto Orci will not be writing anymore of Star Trek 3: Funny how things seem to be falling apart without JJ around. It looks like Orci is slowly being pushed out of the movie. I believe he will be out of the project completely in a few weeks. BTW, Fast and Furious director Justin Lin will direct Trek 3. Now, he has a lot of work to do to clean up all the mess left behind with Orci's departure from the directing chair. I think this is the right decision. Heck, bring in a new director for each movie to keep it fresh.   ~ Dustin Diamond Arrested? : I hated Screech and I hated the actor behind the character even more. He has tried everything sleazy to stay famous from a shitty porn tape to a bunch of bad reality shows, but getting arrested in Wisconsin. He was carrying a switchblade. Carry any blade of that manner is against the law in WI. Oh did I mention his Lifetime movie about saved by the bell was pretty shitty? I love how he t...

  I've been re-reading the Rob Justman/Herb Solow book called Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. Here are a few things worth noting. I'll have a few more to post in another post.      -Gene LOVED women. He really loved trying to bed them...sometimes in his office. It should be noted that there is more than a bit of sexism in his original series with a lot of the famale guest stars being portrayed as very pretty but bit of airheads. The sexism does bother me in the TOS episodes and this partly goes back to Gene's view of women. As the movies were ripped away from Gene, the women started to be written better with stronger roles.  -Nichelle Nichols allegedly would show up to Gene's office either completely naked or only wearing a sweater. I am not making this up. Nichelle herself has admitted that she had a relationship with Gene before and during the show. Nichelle was a lovely woman and could you imagine some of the producers walking into t...

 About that Michael Brown Song... Yes, this is actually offensive. I certainly give the black community a lot of flack not focusing on the real problem of black on black crime. However, no one can dismiss this extremely racist video and further supports why the black community doesn't trust the police. Even I get nervous around police officers because it only takes on shitty cop to bust a cap in my ass. Why in the heck would someone even bother singing such a racist song in the age of cell phones? Everything gets recorded now-a-days. Just ask Mitt Romney. From Daily Mail, ((An outraged attendee at the party filmed part of the song when they realized nobody was objected to the new, racist lyrics. Sources told TMZ around 30 retired and serving cops were at the party, thrown by retired LAPD officer Joe Myers.)) Public relations with the police is at an all time low and now this surfaces. Look, Michael Brown was a thug and part of the major problems wit...

Directors vs Directors rap battle I love this rap battle. While I like Michael Bay's song, I think Alfred Hitchcock is the better rapper with some disses. And, I love the Megan Fox mention. The makeup is very good and I love the Michael Bay hairpiece.   My only two gripes are they didn't make fun of Bays embarrassing exit from a stage earlier this year. And, what about a cameo by George Lucas?   

Fedora-Hating?    I remember when fedoras were considered cool and a throwback to the olden days. I used to work with a guy at work that wore one of these fedoras...even during the summer time. I kind of hated those hats, but I am more of a hoodie guy myself because it covers everything and keeps the world out (plus it covers my eyes). I've started to see more and more fedora hating of late, plus some strange/fake youtube comments talking about being offended by something in the video. Now, I find these comments funny , some have started to hate them and created an add-on to combat them. So, I guess we can call it fedora-shaming (trendy) One thing that is overlooked though is that fedoras actually made a comeback in the mid-late 90s when the swing band craze went into effect. The best part is the meme sort of started with a picture from the actor Jerry Messing. He actually reveals where it came from. He was doing head-shots and the camera guy had...

Man crashes his SUV into a couple of cop cars And, I thought I had anger issues.  This guy left, called his woman yelling at her and drove back and rammed his SUV into some cop cars. Who does this? They could have easily arrested him for the way he acted before the incident, but let him go. Plus, he's lucky they didn't fill him with bullet holes given that he attempted to kill them. Wow, the cops really showed restraint in this case. From The Daily Mail, ((Plain was arrested and transported to the Black Hawk County Jail where he was charged with first-degree criminal mischief and two counts of assaulting a police officer.)) I'd charge him with attempted murder.  This happened in Waterloo (US), I am looking for a  Napoleon joke...

EB Games (Rivals) I was c hecking Reddit and stumble across this really bad commercial . Copy that. The acting is horrible and I am laughing at the shitty line delivery. The worst actor in the ad is the EB employee. Did they just get an EB Games employee to do the ad instead of hiring an actor? Holy cow. Also note his gestures in the background when the COD player knocks the other one in the glass. By far the funniest thing about the ad is the EB Games employee's super long neck. This guy is like Mr. Fantastic. I mean look at that thing. Oh, and the video has a low rating on YT. Copy that.

Speaking of this North Karea/Sony thing...What about Dennis Rodman?    Where does the clown of frown fit into this overall NK story? He's been in the background for a while now and not making an ass of himself. However, after doing some digging, it looks like Rodman did have something to say about the movie before the hacking. From USA Today, ((“When I came back [from North Korea] they were talking about making that movie. That’s a shame. It’s such a shame,” Rodman said. “They blast me, when I’m the one who went and talked to him four times. Now all of a sudden they’re going to make a joke about the guy. Nobody’s giving them flack at all. They make a joke about it, ‘You want us to go over and kill him?’ and they say yes. That’s supposed to be funny. That’s the kind of thing that’s a Catch-22. You’ll blast me but you won’t blast this. At least I made history and that’s why you made a movie about it. You made a comedy out of it.” )) Now, he has nothing to say a...

Again, George Clooney speaks the truth. Clooney has this to say via Deadline, (("We should be in the position right now of going on offense with this. Stick it online. Do whatever you can to get this movie out. Not because everybody has to see the movie, but because I'm not going to be told we can't see the movie. )) I couldn't agree more. I'd say release it online. Heck, if Sony won't even bother making money from it, just release it for free. The Internet is probably the only place to say F' it and F' you to North Korea. (("That's the most important part. We cannot be told we can't see something by Kim Jong Un, of all f***ing people." )) Agreed, this is a leader that put his uncle to death for defending his own property. I hope people haven't forgotten about that.  He's more of a joke than his father, but far more brutal too.  

Uh, The Interview is canceled Wow, I am really pissed off about this story, but torn too. IGN is claiming that the Feds believe that North Korea is the one behind the attacks against Sony . However, it looks like they hired some hackers in China to do the dirty deed.    Here's the thing; this now opens the door for anyone that's offended by a movie to threaten violent attacks on a movie or video game release. However, we do know that people can and will carry out mass shootings and bombing to get their points across such as the Boston bombing and the theater shooting. It only takes one to scare the shit out of people. However, this still makes me mad and I can't believe I am siding with Newt Gingrich today. From Newt's Twitter Page , ((No one should kid themselves. With the Sony collapse America has lost its first cyberwar. This is a very very dangerous precedent. )) I was actually going to see this movie to support Seth and the studio, bu...

The Salad Mixxer (Adult Swim Infomercial ) Holy crap this funny as hell. I love the expressions on the ladies faces when when he keeps bringing out a sexually charged items. Man, these fake ads are freaking great. -Wait, one of the women got it stuck in her...? And, it is still on. -I love the Mega-Mixer. Plus, they made it black. Very subtle. -Did he have to make those noising when “mixing the salad”? -Basically, this guy created these items for food preparing and people turned them into sex toys. -The Mega-Mixer actually shakes the film out of frame! -I love how the Modern ad has pornstars selling his items. It looks like most of the modern actors are indeed pornstars. I only recognize Bridgette B. -Please note the “XXX” in the product's title.   Holy shit... _____________________________________________________  

Random Photos of Trains around Louisville Here are a few photos of trains I've taken pictures of around Louisville. And, I'll share them with you here. I might go out and take a few more of certain trains out there later in the day. 

Sony Leaks II: George Clooney is a good guy These leaks have shown that most of these actors are pretty much the same people you do see interviews. David O Russel is still a complete and utter dick and no one should ever hire him for anything. But, George Clooney is a nice guy that actually cares about his work. The Sony leaks go to show that he was very troubled with the reviews to his movie, which he directed and wrote, The Monument Men. There really are some cool people out there in Hollywood.    From JustJared, ((“I need some protection from all the reviews,” George reportedly wrote. “Let’s just make it a hit. I haven’t slept in 30 hours. And it’s 7 am.” )) He talks about not sleeping over 30 hours. I can actually relate to this a lot. I'm not one of these guys that can put setbacks aside like most people. It keeps me up all day and night. I get depressed and that mean little voice in my head says that I am shit and you just give it all up. Th...

  Battlefield Earth (Repooped) (Mega Post) I LOVE to hate this movie.  Like me, the Internet loves to take a shit on this piece of shit.  And, they're right.  BE is that bully that finally got its ass kicked and now everyone is taking a kick or punch for paybacks.  I find the more I watch, the more pure golden comedy I discover in each scene. I actually tried explaining this shitty movie to is a movie fan like myself, but I'm not sure I conveyed the sheer shitty nature of said movie. Heck, I even tried to explain to him that the main villain tries to prove how much of a badass he was by shooting the legs off some damn cows. Slow Moving Cows!!!  We got a badass villain here.  I guess he's going to make us hamburgers too.   Vader never had to do this.   I kind of like the fact that David Miscavige had something to do with this shitty movie. I also like that Tom Cruise even hated the movie. Mr. Scientology himsel...